124 HERON. 



of the neck, and the sides of it, are covered with loose blue feathers, 

 falling' over the breast; from the lower part of the back arise several 

 slender feathers, which hang loose, and reach the end of the tail, and 

 sometimes beyond it ; on the sides of the head, and just above the 

 eyes white, passing a little way on each side of the neck; legs yellow. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and is a most beautiful species. 



In the female the bill is blackish, the base beneath pale ; head 

 not crested ; the crown and hind part of the neck bluish ash-colour; 

 chin white; the sides of the neck, as far as the middle, fine rufous; 

 down the middle a beautiful white and rufous line, bounded on each 

 side with black ; breast covered with long, loose, blackish feathers ; 

 those on the back part of the neck black, but streaked down the 

 middle of the shaft with white; the upper parts of the body, wings, 

 and tail fine green, like that of a Duck's head, and glossy ; under 

 parts deep rufous ; quills black ; tail brown. 



One of the last described, in the collection of General Da vies* 

 said to be a female, was a most elegant bird. 



Another, in Lord Stanley's collection, has the bill six inches and 

 a half long; with blue grey feathers from the nape, but no very long- 

 ones ; head and neck answering to the male in PL enlum. ; back and 

 wings deep black, with a greenish gloss ; beneath, from the breast* 

 very deep and tine ferruginous; under wing coverts the same ; legs 

 deep brown ; quills and tail as the back, and equal in length. 



96 —CHALYBEATE HERON. 



Cancrofagus Brasiliensis, Bris. v. 479. Id. 8vo. ii. 337. Ind. Orn. ii. 690. 



Ardeola Brasiliensis, Rail, 101. 18. Will. 210. 



Le Crabier Chalybe, Buf. vii. 404. 



Small Brasilian Heron of Marcgrave, Will. Engl. 285. 



Blue Heron, Gen. Syn. v. 80. C. 



LENGTH sixteen inches. Bill two inches and a half, dusky, 

 beneath white ; irides and bare skin round the eyes yellow ; plumage 



